“With Oracle Hyperion Financial Management
11.1.2.4 we saw dramatic improvements in financial consolidation times.
Executing a consolidation on our main organizational structure went from three
hours to 15 minutes,” said Diane Ferry, administrator at Emerson for Oracle
Hyperion Financial Management. “As we have many alternate organizational
structures, the savings in consolidation times will allow us to have the
application ready for our users more quickly. It will also allow our users to
more quickly analyze their results.”

This technical session, along with
demonstration provides information on various features and tool set to acquire
unstructured data for Oracle Endeca Information Discovery 3.1, organize them
and efficiently creates discovery applications using EID.

Wednesday Oct 29, 2014

Oracle announced at
OpenWorld, the availability of the new model Exalytics In-Memory
Machine X4-4 todramatically increase performance and capacity; leveraging
the Oracle Database In-Memory option for faster data driven insights.

The latest refresh of Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine includes Intel
Xeon processors customized for Oracle business analytics workloads, supporting
50 percent faster clock speed, 50 percent more processing cores and 50 percent
more memory compared to the previous generation.The X4-4 model still sells at the same list
price as the prior X4-2 of $175,000 for the 2Tb model: additional RAM can be
added.

Oracle also announced certification of Oracle
Database In-Memory for the Oracle Exalytics In-Memory Machine,
expanding the scope of in-memory analytics to include the full capabilities of
the Oracle Database, as well as continueing support for Times Ten.

This training is part of the Oracle Business Analytics EMEA Partner
Community Forum on 21st October to 24th October, 2014 in
Utrecht, Netherlands.

This is your key annual event
here in Europe to get the latest from Oracle to propel your business growth in
Business Intelligence and Hyperion Enterprise Performance Management. This
event should appeal to Analytics,
Big Data,
Data Integration
and EPM
specialised Partners, Executives, Sales, Pre-sales and Solution consultants:
with a choice of participation in the plenary day and then a set of special
interest sessions and training.

Innovate - Modernising and Transforming: reduce
the pain for your clients, and find more value

Going beyond Big Data confusion

During this event you can learn
about success stories,
participate in an array of break-out
sessions, exchange information with other partners and enjoy a
vibrant discussion. The break-out sessions and training have limited capacity:
confirmation to selected sessions will be subject to availability and
pre-requisites.

Note: There
is no registration fee for OPN partner members for the conference which
includes the plenary day, gala dinner, as well as any of the deeper dives and
technical training, but you will be responsible for your own travel and hotel
expenses.For further information or
assistance on hotel booking and event logistics, please contact Alexandra
von Sondern or Mike Hallett.

Places are limited, so for more information on agenda and hotel logistics,
please REGISTER NOW.

Wednesday Aug 06, 2014

Oracle Database 12.1.0.2,
which includes the Oracle Database In-Memory option, is officially released and
is now available for download.Collateral that explains in detail how all of
the new Oracle Database In-Memory functionality works is on The
In-Memory page on Oracle.com including this technical whitepaper.

Consultants from Oracle partners
can become Certified Implementation
Specialists by passing the proctored (supervised) exams for OBIEE, Essbase,
Hyperion and BI-Apps. These exams are offered at Pearson VUE testing centres
and some Oracle University training locations, which are located in most EMEA
major cities: see the links below for more details.

We also have on-line tests for “Sales”
and “Pre-sales” knowledge, which also provide these levels of specialisation certificate.

To get certified as Specialised,
check the Business and Competency Criteria linked below for each specialisation area and
take the Assessment Tests:

Friday Apr 04, 2014

In UK, but open to all EMEA OPN member
partners, OBIEE 11g and BI Apps OPN bootcamps will take place in May, in
Reading, UK. These are run by Oracle
OPN, through our VAD Avnet, and are chargeable at £750 per student.These provide skills to pass the OPN
Specialisation exams, and to implement projects for your clients.

Monday Mar 10, 2014

We invite you to download the presentations and replay this series of Webinars for
Oracle BI Partners so you can better advise your existing clients on how and
why they should modernize, upgrade and expand what they can achieve with the
latest version of Oracle BI Foundation, and discuss the benefits of combining
analytics integrated with ERP, EPM and finance systems to provide a complete
view of forecasts, plans and actuals accessible by Finance and all lines of
business managers.We will also look at the
full spectrum of analytics that clients can deploy to better service and sell
to their customers; providing a 360 customer view, predictive analytics, social
sentiment analysis, and pro-active real-time decisioning for an optimized
multi-channel customer experience.

Help Your Customers Stay Competitive with the Latest
Business Analytics

Join us to learn how you can help your customers outmanoeuvre
their competition by embracing modern business intelligence to gain alignment,
understand their data, and more accurately forecast outcomes.

As Oracle Partners you need to talk with our Customers about
solutions and not single products, so you need a consistent and comprehensive
story about the Role of Business Analytics in Customer Experience (CX).

We want to share with you our partners, our current market
and product positioning and presentation material that you can re-use whenever
you go to meet your Customers:

·who are interested in Business Analytics, but also want to
have an integrated view of all Oracle’s CX product portfolio and architecture,

·and to present Business Analytics as a key component of any
CX opportunity.

Oracle Business Analytics for the office of Finance and the CFO (April 2)

The Oracle Hyperion installed customer base represents a
major opportunity to sell complementary Oracle Business Analytics solutions. We explain the customer the benefits of an
integrated BA+EPM platform and how to engage them in transformational projects.

This webcast will introduce a customer facing presentation,
to help you deliver the messages to your clients with confidence.

For existing Oracle Hyperion Customers the benefits can be
summarized as:

Wednesday Nov 27, 2013

This hands-on
partner workshop highlights both the hardware and software components
that are engineered to work together to deliver Oracle Exalytics - an optimized
version of the industry-leading Oracle TimesTen In-Memory Database with
analytic extensions, a highly scalable Oracle server designed specifically for
in-memory business intelligence, and Oracle’s proven Business Intelligence
Foundation with enhanced visualization capabilities and performance
optimizations.

After taking this course, you will be well prepared to architect,
build, demo, and implement an end-to-end Exalytics solution. You will also be
able to extend your current OBI, Essbase and Hyperion Planning
implementations to take advantage of the compute capacity and in-memory
capabilities of Oracle Exalytics.

Prerequisites
- Experience
and understanding of OBI11g
is required, and priority will be given to those with OPN Specialisation in OBI11g.
This training is only available to OPN
member partners in EMEA and is free of charge.

With this enhanced storage and processing power, the
ExalyticsT5-8 supports massive server and application consolidation to run combinations
of OBI Foundation, BI-Apps, Essbase, Endeca and Hyperion applications together,
while scaling to many thousands of users with overall lower total cost of
ownership.

Tuesday Aug 27, 2013

This workshop is to help
attendees discover Oracle Business Analytics from a sales perspective.The intended audience is Executives, Sales
and presales people from Oracle OPN member Partners only:existing partners selling applications or
technology or hardware will all benefit by becoming able to cross-sell
Analytics to existing and new clients.

It will help you to find
out what is new and what has been enhanced, and understand how this works for
an existing Oracle applications or technology customer.

Attendees will
understand how Analytics is positioned for the market opportunities from Big
Data, Customer Experience, and Cloud and can walk away ready to talk
confidently about Oracle BI Foundation 11g, BI-Apps, Endeca, Exalytics and
Business Analytics solutions to their clients.

·There
is a new “Exalytics In-Memory Software”
product which is now mandatory for all valid configurations of OBI and EPM
software running on Exalytics (but not for Endeca only configurations).This Exalytics
In-Memory Software includes the software-specific enhancements created and
enabled on Exalytics including Summary Advisor, hardware accelerations for OBI
Server and Essbase and enhanced BI-Publisher bursting.

·If licensing by Named User Plus
(NUP), the minimum is now 20 NUP licenses per Customer. The licensing
prerequisites for Exalytics
In-Memory Software are Business Intelligence
Foundation Suite, or Business Intelligence Foundation Suite for Oracle
Applications, or Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus or
Business Intelligence Suite Enterprise Edition Plus for Oracle Applications and
/ or Essbase Plus and / or Hyperion Planning Plus.

Hidden in all the new
volumes and varieties of big data is the information your client’s need to grow
revenue, cut costs, and innovate. Big data can transform your business, but you
have to uncover that new insight with Big Data Analytics.